The party of Yemen's former president, a main player in the messy, months-old civil war, said in an emailed statement that it accepts a peace plan brokered by the United Nations in talks in Oman.
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Saudi Arabia has stopped granting work permits to domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines, following hiring conditions imposed by the Asian countries, said a report.
The Saudi move comes after authorities in Indonesia and Phili

India's Bharti Airtel, in talks to buy the African mobile operations of Kuwait's Zain for $9 billion, has issued a term sheet to banks to raise up to $8.5 billion in offshore loans to fund the deal, banking sources said.
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